Businessman Brian Tiwarie yesterday rejected claims that his company had taken possession of containers belonging to the fired Specialty Hospital contractor and he accused the Donald Ramotar administration of grossly mismanaging the project.
In a letter that appears on page seven of today’s edition, Tiwarie blasted former President Ramotar for stating that Tiwarie’s company BK Inc had taken possession of eight Surendra Engineering Company Limited containers valued at $800m. Tiwarie said that the containers held steel rods to the value of US$153,000 ($32m) and were sold at public auction held by the courts. BK had sued Surendra for $400m pertaining to foundation work that had been done on the Specialty Hospital site.
Tiwarie’s salvo at Ramotar was in response to a report in yesterday’s edition of Stabroek News reporting the former President as querying why the current administration had allowed BK to take possession of the containers to the
